{"id":798,"date":"2014-04-07T13:12:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T13:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/?p=798"},"modified":"2014-04-15T15:57:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T15:57:08","slug":"leonardo-da-vince-the-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/leonardo-da-vince-the-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo da Vinci the Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Come see the exhibit on Leonardo da Vinci: The Engineer at the Lichtenberger Engineering Library.\u00a0 The exhibit includes models of some of his engineering feats: \u00a0a catapult and a multiple sling designed as war machines to hurl stones, a paddleboat and a great kite.\u00a0 Stop by and see pictures of his underwater breathing machine, a steam cannon, a gigantic crossbow and the Vitruvian man.<\/p>\n

Included in the exhibit case are facsimiles from the University\u2019s Special Collections of da Vinci\u2019s original manuscripts printed from the collection of the Institute de France.\u00a0 Twelve manuscripts written between 1492 and 1516 were brought back to Italy by Francesco Melzi, his favorite pupil, after da Vinci\u2019s death.\u00a0 These facsimiles feature over five thousand pages of drawings and notes in his characteristic “mirror-image” hand-writing, running from right. The sections on display in the case are those related to:\u00a0 the military art, optics, geometry, the flight of birds and hydraulics.<\/p>\n

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One of Da Vinci\u2019s famous drawings is of the Vitruvian Man, a drawing created in 1490, is accompanied by notes based on the work of the architect Vitruvius and Book III of his treatise De Architectura.\u00a0 Vitruvius the architect\u00a0described the human body with having ideal proportions.\u00a0 The drawing, pen and ink on paper, depicts a male figure in a square within a circle.\u00a0 The drawings sometimes referred to as the \u201cProportions of Man,\u201d and named in honor of the architect Vitruvius, represent da Vinci\u2019s blend of art and science.\u00a0 Encyclopaedia Brittanica<\/i> online states that da Vinci \u201cbelieved the workings of the human body to be an analogy for the workings of the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Those of you interested in hydraulics may know about Enzo Macagno.\u00a0 In 1960, Macagno became interested in studies of the history of fluid mechanics and the life of da Vinci.\u00a0 Along with his colleague and late wife, Matilde, Macagno became an international expert on da Vinci, publishing numerous articles and IIHR monographs on the interpretation, analysis, and synthesis of da Vinci\u2019s codices and manuscripts as they relate to fluid-flow and transport phenomena.\u00a0 You will find more information in the exhibit case and two monographs from Special Collections on Macagno\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

This is just a sampling of what can be seen at the Lichtenberger Engineering Library\u2019s Leonardo Da Vinci: The Engineer exhibit. Stop by to learn more!<\/p>\n

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References<\/p>\n

Capra, Fritjof. The Science of Leonardo.\u00a0 New York: Doubleday,2007. Engineering Library Q143.L5 C37 2007 http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F\/?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&local_base=UIOWA&request=004251437<\/a><\/p>\n

da Vinci, Leonardo, 1452-1519.\u00a0 Leonard da Vinci: scientist, inventor, Artist.\u00a0 Ostfildern-Ruit [Germany]: Verlage Gerd Hatje, 1997. Engineering Library N6923.L33 A4 1997 http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F\/?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&local_base=UIOWA&request=007162629<\/a><\/p>\n

Kemp, Martin.\u00a0 Leonard Da Vinci Experience, Experiment and Design.\u00a0 Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Art Oversize FOLIO N6923.L33 K449 2006. http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F\/?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&local_base=UIOWA&request=003637253<\/a><\/p>\n

Laurenza, Domenico.\u00a0 Leonardo on Flight.\u00a0 Baltimore: The John Hopkins University press,2004. Engineering Library TL540.L4 L38 2007. http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F\/?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&local_base=UIOWA&request=004220622<\/a><\/p>\n

Moon, Francis C.The Machines of Leonardo Da Vinci and Franz Reuleaux.\u00a0 New York: Springer, 2007. Engineering Library TJ 230 .M66 2007. http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F\/?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&local_base=UIOWA&request=004382572<\/a><\/p>\n

Museo Nazionale Della Scienza E Della Technologia Leonardo Da Vinci.(2014).Retrieved from http:\/\/www.museoscienza.org\/english\/leonardo\/manoscritti\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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